Friday, July 13, 2012

Be Our Guest!

Having a guest room is SUPER important to me, which is why I thought this space would be the perfect one to splash with the bright yellow and grey trendy colour scheme.

I made the pom poms with black and white damask tissue papers from walmart. I thought they would tie together with the damask lamp in the corner and add a touch of similarity to the rest of the house. The guest bed from Ikea pulls out to become a king sized luxury! The drawers underneath house sheets, pillows, and blankets...love this bed so much!

The walls are WAY brighter, though, than I had wanted. I really SHOULD have gone with "dijon" by Benjamin Moore - a colour that, on the chip, looks like a neutral but really turns out to be a beautiful yellow. Instead, I chose this yellow that perfectly matched the pillow fabrics I had chosen and it turned out to look a LOT like a school bus to me. Nonetheless, I've tried to embrace it and tone it down with lots of greys, blacks, and whites... I think the overall effect is still okay :)

These three suitcases are SO SPECIAL to me. They are actual vintage suitcases from our grandma and grandpa. I LOVE THEM and will treasure them so much! They make the PERFECT grey end table :)

I painted this canvas and then had it custom framed. Turns out the canvas I painted on was not perfectly square (can you tell!? yup!) so they had to restretch it :( What a money sucker!

A little framed art - something I whipped together on the computer...printed on patterned paper.

Our guest book...more on that later!

The pillows are all ones that I sewed removable washable covers for. This project really was super easy, even for someone like me who's terrible at sewing! I love love love the fabrics!

Almost too much to comment on, here goes. I appreciate the way the B&W Damask adds a touch of similarity to the rest of the house almost as much as I love the wording you use to describe it. (Are you secretly a writer?) The hand painted canvas is brighter then the walls making them tone down. Saying on the "Skies are Grey"framed art-almost TOO clever! Grey suitcase could not be more perfect-enough said. And most impressive-having Evalies' outfit match the room.Did you plan that? Always loving U.

Oh my goodness. What a beautiful room! I need to come visit and stay here! LOL! Can you please come down to Oregon and make my house look as amazing as yours? I tell ya, you have the artistic eye...I definitely do NOT! :) Great job!

About Me

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." I have so much - truly, I do - a wonderful husband, a beautiful baby girl, an adorable puppy, a relationship with a God who loves me. But, really...if I'm not THANKFUL, if I don't stop and CHERISH these things...how happy am I? Scrapbooking is so therapeutic for me for that reason: it makes me mindful of what I am blessed with!